This Mom Wants to Bring Taylor Swift’s RI Ties to a Concert Across the U.S. — On a Tee Shirt

This Mom Wants to Bring Taylor Swift’s RI Ties to a Concert Across the U.S. — On a Tee Shirt

Rhode Island native Elisa Hebert has been living in Colorado for over a decade — but home has always been close to her heart.

Hebert, her wife, and their two daughters will all be attending the upcoming Taylor Swift concert in Denver in July, and according to Hebert, the rest of her family is “really into glittery things.”

“I’m not a glittery human,” laughed Hebert, who graduated from Lincoln School in Providence. “My wife said, ‘Well, why don’t you just wear a Taylor Swift tee-shirt?”

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So Hebert said she “spent about 5,000 hours” looking for the perfect shirt, to no avail. 

Then it hit her.

 

Repping Rhode Island 

“I said, how do I not wear my own design representing Rhode Island?” said Hebert, of her “a-ha” moment.

Hebert, of course, was referring to Swift’s Ocean State ties, which include her mansion in Watch Hill, and her songs about the location that is steeped in history. 

“I said I’ll use the anchor motif. The first lyric I wanted to use was “She had a marvelous time ruining everything.”

Hebert was referring Swift’s song, “The Last Great American Dynasty” — and American socialite Rebekah Harkness, the former owner of Swift’s mansion. 

“Then one of my daughters came home from school and wanted to make one,” said Hebert, of the “This is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things” design, based on the title of another Swift song.

For now, Hebert has several tee-shirt concepts that she has up on the site “Tee Public” that she is deciding between to wear to the concert. 

One thing she knows for certain though is that she’ll be going to see Swift on a party bus with her family and neighbors to Empower Field at Mile High in Denver on July 14.

And she’ll be wearing her Rhode Island pride on her tee.